17.02.23
UN New York, CSocD61 - Those are the concluding words of our representative at the UN in New York to the the UN Commission on Social Development. She called on the Commission to reaffirm the importanc [...]
Read more05.02.23
UN New York, CSocD61 - The virtual event we are organizing as part of the 2023 UN Commission on Social Development will draw attention to the specificity of the situation of single parents, in particu [...]
Read more03.01.23
UN New York, Commission on Social Development (CSoCD61) - In our written statement submitted ahead of this year's Commission, MMM points to the inequitable distribution of unpaid family care work as t [...]
Read more03.12.22
UN Geneva, Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development - Commenting on a draft thematic study on Inequality and social protection systems in operationalizing the right to development, MMM highlighted [...]
Read more03.11.22
Organised by UNESCO, the World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education will be held from 14-16 November in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. We will be there and are organising a side event on the transf [...]
Read more04.10.22
At MMM, we believe that sharing the invisible work of caring and educating children more equitably is a quadruple win: essential for early child development (ECD), beneficial for both men and women, a [...]
Read more28.09.22
UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - MMM took the opportunity of a panel discussion on the future of the right to work in the context of Climate Change, to call for a more holistic view of 'work', where [...]
Read more26.09.22
Our grass roots member in Canada Mothers Matter Centre launched their campaign in response to the drastic increase in Gender-Based Violence (GBV) experienced across Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic [...]
Read more26.09.22
UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - In this recent oral intervention, MMM once again highlighted the vital link between the inequitable distribution of unpaid care work and women's ability to benefit fr [...]
Read more22.09.22
UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - MMM's intervention to the Council stresses the need to recognize the central role that unpaid family care work plays in our economy and society, and identifies the Ri [...]
Read more18.09.26
Geneva, September 2026 — Make Mothers Matter (MMM) took part in the second session of the UN Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group examining a new Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the
02.08.26
To mark World Breastfeeding Week, we are delighted to share this contribution from Dr. Farahdibha Tenrilemba, guest writer for Make Mothers Matter and Vice President of KOWANI, Indonesia’s oldest national wom
12.07.26
UN Geneva – The 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC62) concluded last week after three weeks of debates, panel discussions and negotiations in Geneva. Throughout the session, Make Mothers Matter
09.07.26
UN New York – At the online event Rethinking Cities Through Care: People, Planet and the 2030 Agenda which we hosted on the margins of the UN High Level Political Forum (HLPF), experts and practitioners explo
06.07.26
UN Geneva – Promoting women’s financial health and pension security was the theme of a side event organised by Soroptimist International on 1 July, on the margins of the 62nd session of the United Nations H